If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Big Picture Science – San Andreas Fault click to listen (TRT 12:00) Part 1 of Caught in a Traps, featuring Tom Jordan, seismologist, director, Southern California Earthquake Center, University of Southern California, discussing the increasing instability of the San […]

Big Picture Science – What Goes Aroundclick to listen! It’s not just tin cans and newspapers. One man says that, from a technical standpoint, everything can be recycled – cigarette butts, yoga mats, dirty diapers. Even radioactive waste. You name it, we can recycle it. But we choose not to. Find out why we don’t, […]

Big Picture Science – Soil Depletion click to listen (TRT 11:28) Click above to listen to part 4 of What Goes Around, featuring Paul Bogard, assistant professor of English at James Madison University and author of, “The Ground Beneath Us: From the Oldest Cities to the Last Wilderness, What Dirt Tells Us About Who We […]

Big Picture Science – Mining Asteroids click to listen (TRT 5:34) Click above to listen to part 3 of What Goes Around, featuring Etienne Schneider, Deputy Prime Minister and Economic Minister of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, and Pete Worden, chairman of the Breakthrough Prize Foundation and former Director of the NASA Ames Research Center, […]

Big Picture Science – Water From Air click to listen (TRT 7:24) Click above to listen to part 2 of What Goes Around, featuring Eugene Kapustin, graduate student in the Department of Chemistry at University of California, Berkeley, describing how a metal organic framework, or MOF, is used to extract water from thin air.

Big Picture Science – Solar Probe click to listen (TRT 6:19) Click above to listen to part 4 of Eclipsing All Other Shows, featuring Madhulika Guhathakurta, astrophysicist at NASA Heliophysics Science Division and Program Scientist for the Solar Probe Plus mission, discussing the planned mission to send a probe to the sun.

Big Picture Science – American Eclipse click to listen (TRT 10:52) Click above to listen to part 1 of Eclipsing All Other Shows, featuring David Baron, author of “American Eclipse: A Nation’s Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World.”

Big Picture Science – Eclipse Preparation click to listen (TRT 12:26) Click above to listen to part 2 of Eclipsing All Other Shows, featuring Andrew Fraknoi, chair of the Astronomy Department at Foothill College and author of children’s book, “When the Sun Goes Dark,” discussing how to prepare for, and what to expect during, the […]

Big Picture Science – Eclipsing All Other Showsclick to listen! They say that the experience of watching a total eclipse is so profound, you’re not the same afterward. If life-changing events are your thing and you’re in the lower 48 states on August 21st, let us help you make the most of viewing the Great […]